[Template-haskell] RE: template-haskell names in 6.3

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Acutally it's there already:
	qCurrentModule :: Q String

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Keean Schupke [mailto:k.schupke at imperial.ac.uk]
| Sent: 02 December 2004 17:37
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Subject: Re: template-haskell names in 6.3
| 
| Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| 
| Okay I want a globaly unique label, so I want to prepend the module
name
| to the string...
| 
| module SomeLib.MyModule where
| 
| $(label "myLabel") -- splices: myLabel = "SomeLib.MyModule.myLabel"
| 
| I guess what I want is a reifyModuleName?
| 
|     Keean.
| 
| >| -----Original Message-----
| >| From: MR K P SCHUPKE [mailto:k.schupke at imperial.ac.uk]
| >| Sent: 22 October 2004 13:05
| >| To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org; Simon Peyton-Jones
| >| Subject: template-haskell names in 6.3
| >|
| >|
| >| I have now read most of the notes on template-haskell2, but I still
| >| have a problem with naming (although I think my issues with types
| >| are adequately dealt with by the '' notation.
| >|
| >| I wish to create a declaration in template haskell, where the
funtion
| >| name is supplied: something like:
| >|
| >| $(label "myLabel")
| >|
| >| However I wish the reference to this label to be globally specific
| >| to the generated instance... an example of this would be a function
| >| that prints its reified name:
| >|
| >| $(example "myLabel") would splice:
| >|
| >| myLabel :: String
| >| myLabel = "This_module.myLabel"
| >|
| >| mkName only returns the 'local' namem
| >| how can I get a global name from a string?
| >|
| >| Keean.
| >
| >